WHEW! What a trip it was. Almost 2 weeks crammed full of road tripping (1670 miles), Bed and Breakfasting ( 6 different places to lay our heads), sight seeing(Amazing people, wildlife and scenery) and of coarse the main attraction? Lobster Eating! (Those poor guys didn’t stand a chance) And after all that? We are actually still friends too.
Barb and I have done similar trips many times in the past. It started some years back when Barb said she wanted to have a lobster dinner for her birthday, so I booked a long weekend in Maine. My only rule was she had to eat lobster at every meal, and she did it! This year our Friends Sal and Patty met up with us in Boston and we were off!
We made our first stop for a quick lobster roll(Warm with garlic butter) the minute we got over the Maine border. Not the classic version with mayonnaise, but my favorite version. Look at all that meat!
And then we were off to Booth Bay Harbor for the night and the next day of shopping . Booth Bay is a pretty little tourist town on the Maine coast like all our Maine stops, cute little shops, a lighthouse here and there and a lobster pound close by.
Next we traveled into Canada where the scenery changed from touristy seaside villages to beautiful untouched forests of tall pines. Unlike when we traveled in Maine where we hugged the coastline dotted with cute little villages, Canada’s coastline was rugged, sparsely populated and hard to find a road to take you close enough to the shore for a view, but we did find a couple. Most of the seaside towns we did visit were not the quaint little towns jammed with shops, but actual fishing villages and gone were the mega houses on the shore packed tightly together. A refreshing change for me.
One great example of Canada’s beautiful nature was at our first stop in canada, Hopewell Rocks Park located at the head of the Bay of Fundy. Here’s where the tidal change is up to 46 feet and you’re able to walk on the bay bottom at low tide and then climb the stair tower to escape the incoming tide when it rushes back in. Quite a sight to experience. The stair tower can be completely covered at some high tides.
The next morning it was off to Halifax, NS. A bustling little port city and its sister city of Dartmouth just across the port located on the east side of Nova Scotia. We had this awesome Air B&B on the north side of the city over looking the salt marshes. Just checkout this view! All it needed was a big moose grazing.
After spending a couple of days bouncing up and down Nova Scotia’s east coast checking out all the little fishing villages we could find, with their unique light houses it was time to head to the very southern end of the island, Yarmouth by way of Nova Scotia’s southwest coast. Where the east coast can be very brutal at times of the year, the southwest coast is much more temperate. Here, wineries and artists are getting their start where the fur industry once thrived and scallop trawling is still hanging on. We had one of our best meals in this little restaurant overlooking the Bay of Fundy eating huge scallops just seared and a local favorite of pan seared Haddock with lobster cream. Not much to look at, but wow it was good!
And lastly few days we spent in Yarmouth. Yarmouth is an old fish processing town trying to work its way back to relevance. Its not there yet, but there’s lots to see in the area with beautiful coastline last scapes, lighthouses of coarse and we toured a fish processing plant’s museum before we hopped on the car ferry and headed back to Maine, then Boston for a flight out the next morning.
There’s so many things that I didn’t cover in this post. The fall leaf colors were just starting or the friendly people that we met. I could on and on about the natural scenery that this part of north America has to offer, but you just got to experience it for yourself. I do have a lot more pictures for you to see here, so check them out.
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